Want to know a good reason to be a right winger? Check out this article from Reuters.  My comments are in green.

Pedophiles to launch political party

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals, sparking widespread outrage. Before you know it, anyone out of diapers will be fair game.

The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party said on its Web site it would be officially registered Wednesday, proclaiming: "We are going to shake The Hague awake!" Doubt it. This is yet another case of cooked frog.  (i.e. if you put a frog in boiling water, he jumps out but if you put him in cold water and turn the heat up gradually, he'll be simmered and separating before he knows what hit him...) 

The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether. And there you have it.

"A ban just makes children curious," Ad van den Berg, one of the party's founders, told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper. Children are curious about gas stoves, too, should we let them hold a match to the pilot light?

"We want to make pedophilia the subject of discussion," he said, adding the subject had been a taboo since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child abuse scandal in neighboring Belgium. There's a reason certain things are taboo, dumb a$$. (Sorry about the swear - I'm getting more and more miffed as I read this a second time...)

"We want to get into parliament so we have a voice. Other politicians only talk about us in a negative sense, as if we were criminals," Van den Berg told Reuters. Hmm.  Wonder why the negativism?

The Netherlands, which already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution and gay marriage, was shocked by the plan. Shocked is always the first reaction. Then the debate starts.  After a few roundtable discussions and about 35,000 mentions in the press, tolerance is the byword.  Within a few years, tolerance becomes acceptance and eventually, the behavior is embraced. Want proof?  Watch Will and Grace.

An opinion poll published Tuesday showed that 82 percent wanted the government to do something to stop the new party, while 67 percent said promoting pedophilia should be illegal. Those are roughly the same figures that opposed gay marriage 5 years ago - now there is a slim (single digit) majority against legalization of homosexual unions. Think about it!

"They make out as if they want more rights for children. But their position that children should be allowed sexual contact from age 12 is of course just in their own interest," anti-pedophile campaigner Ireen van Engelen told the AD daily.   Ya think?  Of course, the next arguments will include "it's natural",  "there is evidence of premature sexual activity in the animal world"  and "there may be a genetic predisposition"...Sound familiar?

Right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders said he had asked the government to investigate whether a party with such "sick ideas" could really be established, ANP news agency reported.  Can I just ask where the hell these "right-wing lawmakers" were when the Dutch society first got thrown into the pot of cool water???

Kees van deer Staaij, a member of the Christian SGP party, also demanded action: "Pedophilia and child pornography should be taboo in every constitutional state. Breaking that will just create more victims and more serious ones."

The party wants private possession of child pornography to be allowed although it supports the ban on the trade of such materials. It also supports allowing pornography to be broadcast on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening. Have they never seen soap operas?  I'd say we already lost this battle - notice they want VIOLENT PORNOGRAPHY available in the evenings - they aren't even talking about pay-per-view here.  They wanted it piped into everyone's homes.

Toddlers should be given sex education and youths aged 16 and up should be allowed to appear in pornographic films and prostitute themselves. Sex with animals should be allowed although abuse of animals should remain illegal, the NVD said. Toddlers - that's the 2 and under crowd. Got it?  Usually, not even potty trained yet.  Bestiality is apparently okay also so long as the poor beast doesn't get hurt - how thoughtful.

The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public and promotes legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all. 

And there you have it, folks.  The next step.  Don't convince yourself that this movement is a fringe or that it is only going to impact loose-moraled European nations.  America is only a few steps behind Europe with respect to social libertarianism.  For some reason we believe in regulating businesses but allowing individuals to completely debase the species. 

Lately, I feel like Lot, only instead of men beating down my door to defile those under my roof, the sickos are piped right in through the internet, television and radio.  They are marching in our streets and force feeding their propaganda to our children through the public school system.  And they are slowly leading people away with flattery - selling the idea to the masses and the younger generations that the pinnacle of intellectualism is tolerance of the most intolerable acts. 

As concerned citizens, we must stop the erosion of the most basic values of human decency.  We must speak out.  We must climb out of the simmering stew and reclaim our freedom from degradation.  The slope is slippery and it begins with the acceptance of anything less than traditional marriage as a legitimate union of consenting adults.  Call your senators.  Write to your representatives.  Demand that they vote in favor of the Marriage Protection Ammendment.

Last week, Jack Cafferty gave a short report on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.  I don't usually watch the news (I prefer to read) and I never watch the Communist News Network because the bias is apparent it is an insult to my intelligence.  Here is the text of Cafferty's comments:                                                                                                                                               

Wolf, Today’s lesson in hypocrisy comes to us courtesy of the Senate Judiciary Committee. They met in a different private room behind closed doors today and approved a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. at one point the thing got pretty ugly. A shouting match, between the Republican Chairman Senator Arlen Spector and Democratic Senator Russ Feingold, who said he was against the Amendment as well as Spector’s decision to hold the vote in a private room out of the public’s view.

These guys are shameless. Feingold eventually stormed out telling Spector “I’ve enjoyed your lecture Mr Chairman. See ya.”

Senator Spector in a real show of courage, says that he is “totally opposed to the Amendment”, but he voted for it anyway saying that it deserves a debate in the Senate. Majority Leader Bill Frist says the full Senate will now debate a Constitutional Amendment which has absolutely no chance of passing. Frist hopes to have a vote by June 5th.

This is all being done by the republican majority in an effort to appeal to Right-wing nuts in the Republican Party ahead of the upcoming mid-term elections. Ignore all of the pressing issues facing the country, and instead go grovel at the feet of the lunatic fringe. Senator Frist should be very proud of himself. That’s leadership. Here’s the question: Is now the time for the Senate to consider a constitutional Amendment on gay marriage?”

You will notice the fair and balanced treatment given to conservatives on CNN.  Nice.  Definitely, no liberal media bias there...(eye roll)  Here's a fact for Mr. Cafferty, the "lunatic fringe" on the right outnumbers Gay Americans to the extent that your left fringe has to subvert democracy through activist judges to get social approbation.  Let's get real here, Jack!  For a group so enthralled with protecting the disenfranchised, you are perfectly willing to ignore the votes of the large majority of Americans who recognize homosexuality as the social illness that it is.

The simple truth here is this:

This Judiciary Committee approval comes two days after Georgia Superior Court Judge Constance C. Russell single-handedly invalidated the Georgia Marriage Protection Amendment, which was passed by 76% of Georgians at the ballot box. Social engineers of the activist judiciary movement want to remake our nation in their preferred image and they are disenfranchising every voter that disagrees with the far left's anything goes system of ethics and morality.  Click here to speak out for family values.

Today the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has returned a check from Howard Dean for $5000. Apparently, Dean's comments on the 700 Club where he reiterated the DNC position on same-sex marriage turned a few of the homosexual activists off.

His comments as reported on the Task Force website were: "The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman. That's what it says. I think where we may take exception with some religious leaders is that we believe in inclusion, that everybody deserves to live with dignity and respect, and that equal rights under the law are important."

This whole event initially appears to be a very minor blip on the political radar because the truth is that no matter how much of a show the gay community makes, they will still be voting Democrat virtually en masse.  However, as a political snapshot it raises some interesting questions.

Why, for example, was Howard Dean appealing to religious right voters?  What makes him think that an appeal to that group is even worthwhile?  Clearly, the last two presidential elections have made it apparent that the culture war is a huge part of American politics.  There is a vast segment of our population that places a high priority moral values and the Dems are taking more and more notice of us.  With conservative critiques of the Bush administration making headlines almost daily, the frustration of Bush's base is evident, and perhaps that has given Dean the idea that he can swing some votes. 

Unfortunately, Dean's interview reveals the "Christian for the Camera" ploy that has sunk his party repeatedly with the religious right.  Notice this blatantly divisive statement:  " I think where we may take exception with some religious leaders is that we believe in inclusion, that everybody deserves to live with dignity and respect, and that equal rights under the law are important."   Most Christian churches teach "hate the sin, love the sinner"?  In fact, we reach out to welcome homosexuals into the biggest club of all .  We are all-inclusive.  Join us among the sinners. 

Of course, people deserve to live with dignity and respect, most people on the religious right believe that firmly, which is why Pastor Phelps shares DNA with his entire congregation.  No reasonable person, no matter how literally he interprets the Bible can offer hate as a Final Solution.  All we are demanding is that our government not force us to sanction or subsidize behavior that violates our religious beliefs.  And we demand that our children not be indoctrinated into a culture that embraces or promotes acts we deem deviant.  No one wants to torch the houses of homosexuals or see them all fired from their jobs.  Dean's words show a distinct lack of understanding of people of faith and a disregard for our core values and rights.  His appearance on the 700 Club was pure pandering. 

The whole episode smacks of Clinton's taking communion as a non-Catholic.  Even as a non-Catholic, I saw that act as a mockery of the sacred beliefs of the people who adhere to the teachings of that church.  What if he'd attended a Protestant church holding baptismal services, would he have gotten in the water?  

These public professions of faith are calculated and completely disrespectful.  Appropriate behavior when attending a church that espouses beliefs that you don't share or hold sacred is simply a respectful and reverent observance (as in to observe - not to falsely participate).  You don't participate in covenants or sacraments lightly.  People throughout history and around the world today have been willing to die for these beliefs.  How utterly condescending to participate when you aren't an adherent. 

The whole buying votes with the blood of Christ is getting really old.  And as far as I'm concerned, both parties are on notice:  the party that pays more than lip service and that stands up for my right not to support, subsidize or sanction ideologies contrary to my conscience can count on my support.

The May 15th issue of Newsweek is dedicated to the scourge of AIDS.  To be honest, I really didn't want to write this blog.  Being a devotee of traditional family values, I have written often about the LGBT community and my opinion of the activist agenda of the differently sexual.  But simply put,  I just couldn't let this article go without some sort of public commentary.  Some points need to be challenged, others need development and overall, this cover story screams out for a response.  Here goes:

The article begins by describing Jeanne White-Ginder's heartwrenching experience of scrapbooking clippings and photos from the life of her son Ryan White, the little boy whose face brought the AIDS conversation into every home and public school in America.  Unfortunately, this gives the article a disingenuous start considering the simple fact that through 1998, roughly 18 years into America's AIDS "epidemic", only 1% of AIDS death were caused by blood transfusions.  10% of the adult/adolescent victims were heterosexual and a whopping 54% were gay/bi sexual with 6% of that number also admitting to intravenous drug use.  The overwhelming number of people dying from AIDS in this country are facing their demise because of bad sexual decision making.

Making Ryan the poster boy for the AIDS activism movement is furthering a lie.  Ryan was collateral damage in the same way that another 8% of the other victims were collateral damage - people who paid a price because they had a peripheral relationship with a gay man or an IV drug user.  Either they had sexual contact with someone who was infected or they received tainted blood.

The article moves on, lamenting the deafening silence of the nation, its government and its media on the growing number of dead.  Most major news outlets barely mentioned the disease until it crossed over into the heterosexual community.  That's true, and do you want to know why?  Because once blood was being screened more carefully, people felt the virus was contained within two communities that didn't even care enough to stop putting themselves at risk.  Remember the vast number of gay and bisexual men exiting San Francisco bath house in droves and saying, "Thank God, I dodged that bullet.  I'll never have sex with hundreds of other strange men in a public gay brothel again!"  Me neither.  They didn't say that.  They kept right on putting themselves and everyone else with questionable morality at risk.  Thanks guys.  And yet they wanted a tax-payer funded bail-out.  I don't recall numberless hordes of druggies dropping the needle either.  What they wanted were medicines that would allow them to continue having sex like animals in heat with no self-control or common sense.  You know there were other STDs before AIDS and those didn't get the attention of the gay community.  I'm not suggesting that anyone deserves to die through a painful and dehumanizing drawn out battle with HIV.  What I am suggesting is that it is incredibly misleading to insinuate that AIDS spread across the nation simply because federal tax dollars weren't being thrown at the problem.  Even the CDC doesn't list lack of funding as a cause for transmission.

The article is quick to point to openly gay journalist, Randy Shilts, as an example of a media personality who took the issue seriously.

There were a few notable exceptions, particularly the work of the late Randy Shilts, an openly gay journalist who convinced his editors at the San Francisco Chronicle to let him cover AIDS as a full-time beat: that reporting led to the landmark 1987 book "And the Band Played On," a detailed account of how the nation's failure to take AIDS seriously allowed the disease to spread exponentially in the early '80s.

Once again, let me reiterate that unless you can fashion a dollar bill into some sort of effective condom or a mind control device that can convince an oversexed gay community to walk away from the party life, you can hardly blame the nation for the spread of this disease.  The same goes for the second group of high risk idiots - though according to the '98 numbers, their dead only made up about half as many as gay victims.  The point remains, AIDS isn't spontaneous combustion - and dollars aren't fire extinguishers.  Reasonable behavior would have saved so many lives.

The article wraps up with a critique of Hollywood's handling of the issue.  While people wept for Rock Hudson, the censors were still reticent to address an illness that would bring gay sexuality onto every American television set.  How the mighty censors have fallen - now we have Emily's two Mom's and King and King in elementary classrooms.

For more current  numbers, may I recommend the CDC 2004 AIDS surveillance report.  Bet you can guess what it says...

For the years 200-2004 cumulative numbers of AIDS cases based on transmission category:

Males

Male-Male sexual contact 441,380

Injection Drug Use  176,162

Male-Male Sex & IV drug use  64,833

Hetersosexual contact  59,939

Other  14,085

Females

Injection drug use  72,651

Heterosexual contact  99,175

Other 6,636

Child (under 13 at diagnosis)

Perinatal  8,779

Other  664

I'm going to draw a parallel here and some of you won't like it but that hasn't stopped me in the past and it won't now.  Just as the AIDS activism movement has used the face of Ryan White to tug at heartstrings even though activists knew his death was more akin to collateral damage than any real representation of the disease and its transmission and dangers,  the pro-abortion movement altered figures for back alley abortions multiplying estimated numbers a thousandfold in order to garner support.  By their own admission, leaders of planned parenthood lied to move their agenda forward.  This kind of willful deception is a part of every, single cultural movement that has been launched to undermine traditional family values.  Monogamous, faithful, loving family values.  Pornography has been legalized and made socially acceptable by conspiring men whose agenda was to open a pandora's box of immorality and devalue loving sexual relations and the impact of exposure is well documented. 

There are a whole host of ugly and deviant practices that have used subversive measures and deceptive propaganda to gain wide acceptance throghout the world and it is time that reasonable people, whether motivated by faith or by the scientific evidence of the social harm caused by normalizing such behaviors, band together and make a difference.